In 1004/1596, eight years after he left the office of governor of Damascus, Sinân Pasha reconfirmed his great foundation (waqf) in the Bilâd al-Shâm. As shown by a number of legal acts recorded in the court registers of Damascus, the foundation went through a period of crisis in the 1730s; the mutawallî was subject to judicial interdiction (ḥajr) by the central government and was replaced, at least to some extent, by a qâ‘immaqâm whose ability was unanimously recognized. This article examines some aspects of the administration and management of the waqf in this decade through the decisions taken in Istanbul about the persons in charge of it, the challenges faced by two takiyya that were closed for several months, the ways by which the mutawallî’s debts were to be reimbursed and finally the accounts that were established between the mutawallî and the qâ’immaqâm for two consecutive years.